A T-Shirt, Four Months, 350 Degrees
Almost four months ago, we printed shirts for SharePoint Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia.
Oddly enough, one of the shirts found its way into the darkside of the dryer for the past four months. As you can see, the once navy shirt is far from navy. This shirt is now completely brown, but wildly, it's a very, very consistent brown. I'd think it would have significant color variation from being folded and crunched of the last four months, but it doesn't seem to be. The brown is very constant. Having known no different, I would have said it was a brown shirt from the start, it looks that "good."
It clearly was torn to shreds after months of light belt friction and heavy, 350 degree heat hitting it for 40 hours a week over 16 weeks.
Previous post, SharePoint Saturday Hits Atlanta
White Grass Goblins Shirt on American Apparel Tri-Blend
One great shirt from American Apparel is their Tri-Blend TR401. It's super soft and gives a great vintage look right out of the box. It isn't however the most friendly to print with. Since it's made of 50% polyester, 25% cotton and 25% rayon, the discharge-ability is less than desirable.
We went ahead and printed a high opacity white waterbase on this tri-blend and were pretty impressed. The high opacity does leave a bit of a hand to the print, but it's much better than plastisol.
A great look on these tri-blends is printing black waterbase on them. We'll follow up this post later this week with black waterbase on the athletic grey tri-blend.
1150 Miles Later...The New Dryer Has Landed
With the growing demand for our waterbase and discharge ink, we felt time to make an major equipment upgrade in the shop. A dryer is the last major piece of the printing puzzle and we wanted to ensure the highest quality product available while keeping our production from being being too backed up.
This new upgrade is a gas powered dryer, rather than it's electric counterpart. Not only is gas more efficient to operate, but it's also a cleaner burning source of energy than electricity.
The first week of Febuary we traveled from Orlando up to Alabaster, AL to pick up this new monster. We had 1150 miles, 67 gallons of gas and 20 hours round trip, all knocked out in one long day! We had to take a saw to the crate which housed the dryer to fit it into the trailer, but we were used to that. U-Haul gives trailer dimensions, but fail to give the door dimensions to get into the trailer.
Overall, it was a very smooth trip, just a rather long day. Here is a picture of the new dryer installed.
Promo Shirts For Boutique Twenty Two By UCF
We just knocked out some promo shirts for a great new boutique in Orlando right next to the University of Central Florida, Boutique Twenty Two.
Keeping with the fashion forward appeal, our super soft yet bright discharge ink fit the bill quite well. We printed these on black Tultex fine jersey girl tee's.
As you can see from the picture above, the store looks absolutely gorgeous. They carry 7 For All Mankind, Free People, Miss Me, BCBG Generation, and one of our favorites, Alternative Apparel.
If you're in the area, be sure to check out Boutique Twenty Two. Good luck girls!
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